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NFTs For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))

by Tiana Laurence

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DeFi For Dummies

by Seoyoung Kim

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Chess

by Edward Lasker

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“But the benefit of starting from rock bottom is that you've basically been handed a gift: a clean slate. Your pride's been demolished, your ego is pulverized, your fear of failure has been realized in its most brutal forms, you are...free.

Suddenly you're able to shake the judgment of others in a way you never could before, because you no longer give a shit what they think! You've entered a primal survival stage, one you didn't even realize existed. Now all your energy must be reserved for action, for making things happen.”
― Sarah Centrella, #FutureBoards: Learn How to Create a Vision Board to Get Exactly the Life You Want

tags: clean-slate, ego, fear-of-failure, freedom, inspirational, judgement, pride, rock-bottom, survival

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“I've stopped preoccupying myself with the idea that my happiness is dependent on whatever might lie ahead in the future (in this case, buying a house). Contentment within my home is something I can find now - but only if I allow myself to actually appreciate the act of real living.

Contentment within your home is something you can find now, not in a far-off home-owning future.”
― Medina Grillo, Home Sweet Rented Home: Transform Your Home Without Losing Your Deposit

tags: contentment, decorating, happiness, home, home-ownership, housing-crisis, living, now, present, renting

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“If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

What that really means, other than what it sounds like, is, let's say something happens and from a certain slant maybe it's tragic, even a little bit shocking. Then time passes and you go to the funny slant, and now that very same thing can no longer do you any harm.”
― Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

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“The reality is that our bodies are dynamic, evolving, and precious just as they are right now! As my oldest, dearest seventy-eight-year-old client, Dot, once said to me, "Wendy, if I realized at fifty how much worse my body would be at seventy, I'd have stopped complaining so much and shown my body off a lot more. And had lots more sex.”
― Wendy Mak, The Capsule Wardrobe: 1,000 Outfits from 30 Pieces

tags: body-image, fashion, humor

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“Methylene blue was a kind of home run that disappeared from psychiatric use not because it was ineffective or barbaric but because, according to British psychopharmacologist David Healy, “patents had been obtained on newer agents and no drug company would market an old drug even if it worked.” In the case of methylene blue, then, “there were competing therapies or interest groups likely to make more money out of other therapies than they would from methylene blue.” In the 1970s, methylene blue reemerged as a means of treating manic depression, for which it was highly effective, but ultimately corporate profit-seeking interests rather than therapeutic outcomes won the day.”
― Lauren Slater, Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds

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